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1 Sentence Building Pretest To better understand Chapter One, correct the mistakes below. Write the corrected sentences on the lines below. 1. Jenny attends several classes at her university. For example, English literature, listening, and speech. _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ 2. Dr. Lim is the President of the school board. ________________________________________________________________ 3. His birthday is November 9 1951. ________________________________________________________________ 2 Chapter One Sentence Building Chapter One is designed to help you write better by giving you instruction in building better sentences. Sections of the chapter devoted to capitalization, punctuation, and proper article usage will get you started in the right direction. Other sections providing instruction in sentence structure, sentence building, and error correction will get you ready for the basics of paragraph building in Chapter Two. Sentence Building Tools: Capitalization Capitalization is a good place to start when you study writing. The first word in every sentence should be capitalized. It sets off the more specific nouns. Common nouns are not capitalized unless they are at the beginning of a sentence. The names of people should be capitalized. Suhyun Kim John Wayne Ted Tucker 3 Exercise 1.1 1. Using correct capitalization, write the following names. james monroe ____________________________________ wilson pickett ____________________________________ jung-ah park ____________________________________ 2. Write your name with the correct capital letters. name: _______________________________________________________ The first letter of the first word in a sentence is capitalized. This includes all types of sentences: statements, commands, questions, and exclamations. Examples: Statement: I want to buy a new car. Command: Close the door. Question: Are you a student? Exclamation: Look out! The names of cities, countries, and continents are capitalized. Examples: Seoul Pusan Europe Africa London New York Korea China Exercise 1.2 Write the names of two cities, three countries, and a continent here: ________________________________________________________ Capitalize the names of languages and nationalities. Examples: German Russian Japanese Korean Chinese Pakistani Koji is Japanese Illyana is Russian 4 Exercise 1.3 Write the names of two languages here: _____________________ Write names of three nationalities here: _______________________________ Sentence Building Tools: Punctuation Punctuation is an important part of writing skills. Put a period at the end of every statement and command. Examples: Statement: Jenny is a student. Command: Have a seat. Exercise 1.4 Write a similar statement. __________________________________________ Write a similar command. __________________________________________ Put a question mark (?) at the end of every question. Example: Is Jenny a Student? Exercise 1.5 Write a similar question. ___________________________________________ Put an exclamation mark (!) period at the end of every exclamation. Example: Look out! Exercise 1.6 Write a similar exclamation: ____________________________________________________ 5 Sentence Building Tools: Using the articles a and an Using articles correctly will help your writing have a natural flow to it. Singular nouns that begin with a consonant sound should be preceded by a. Singular nouns that begin with a vowel sound should be preceded by an. Examples: a uniform an x-ray machine a university an hour Exercise 1.7 Choose a or an for each of the following nouns and terms _____unit _____heir _____honest person _____SAT score _____yellow hourglass _____UFO Exercise 1.8 Fill in the blanks. Use an article (a or an). Rewrite the sentences with correct capitalization and punctuation. 1. _____ banana is tasty ________________________________________________________ 2. _____ x-ray machine can be found in every hospital ________________________________________________________ 3. _______ eagle is _________ bird ________________________________________________________ 4. _____ cell phone is _____ very handy communication tool. ________________________________________________________ 5. _____ elevator will take you to the main offices on the fiftieth floor. ________________________________________________________ 6 Sentence Building Tools: Capitalization – Days, Months, Seasons, and more Capitalize the days of the week. Examples: Saturday Wednesday Sunday Thursday Monday Friday Tuesday The months of the year are capitalized, however, the seasons are not. Examples: July February summer spring Capitalize the names of streets, roads, avenues, highways, and expressways. Examples: Chong-ro Street Third Avenue The Honam Expressway A brand names is capitalized, but the name of the product is not. Examples: A Samsung television A Lotte hamburger 7 Exercise 1.9 Write complete sentences using the following nouns. Use correct punctuation and capitalization. Example: birds Birds are animals. 1. tokyo ________________________________________________________ 2. china ________________________________________________________ 3. cabbage ________________________________________________________ 4. an eagle ________________________________________________________ 5. february ________________________________________________________ Always capitalize the subject pronoun I. Example: I am tall and fat. Exercise 1.10 Write a sentence using i ________________________________________________________ 8 Sentence Building Tools: Punctuation – Apostrophes Contractions need an apostrophe. The apostrophe should be placed where the missing letter(s) would be and also placed higher than the lower case letters. Examples: Bob’s coming to school today = Bob is coming to school today. doesn’t = does not she’s = she is Review Exercise 1.11 There are mistakes in the following sentences. Write the sentences correctly and use correct punctuation and capitalization. 1. kim and i am brother’s ________________________________________________________ 2. brazils an country ________________________________________________________ 3. an cat is an animal ________________________________________________________ 4. a Hotel and an Hospital are a buildings ________________________________________________________ 5. tianjin and fukuoka are city ________________________________________________________ 6. hes very tall ________________________________________________________ 9 Sentence Building Tools: Titles A job name is capitalized only if it is used as a title. Use a period after titles that are abbreviations. Examples: Mrs. Oh Professor Basker (capitalized as a title) She is a professor. (not capitalized as a job name) Ms. Park is an assistant. Dr. Kim (title and abbreviated—so capitalize and use period after the abbreviation) Exercise 1.12 Fill in the blanks with a negative form of the be verb (be, is, am, are, was, were). Use contractions and rewrite these sentences with correct capitalization and punctuation on the lines below. 1. mrs anderson ________________ a business woman ___________________________________________________________________ 2. mr young and ms lee ________________ doctors ___________________________________________________________________ 3. dr park ________________ a professor ___________________________________________________________________ Sentence Building Tools: Error Correction Rather than correct your sentences and paragraphs for you, your instructor may choose to note your errors on your paper so that you can correct them. When you correct your own errors, you learn more than when someone else corrects them. Your instructor will use the proofreading symbols on the charts below. Proofreading Symbols 10 Explanation Sentence marked with symbols Corrected sentence 1. Insert a space Mr. Lim wentto work. Mr. Lim went to work. 2. connect and make one word They go to school to gether. They go to school together. 3. add words Haeundae is very pretty, but not my favorite beach. Haeundae is very pretty, but it is not my favorite beach. 4. remove this Jenny is a businesswoman. She is from India. India is inexpensive to visit Jenny is a businesswoman. She is from India. 5. add this Dr. Noh is professor. Dr. Noh is a professor. 6. ww wrong word You speak English very good. You speak English very well. 7. change order (transpose) Ramon is boss my. Ramon is my boss. 8. word order error We drove to the coast east yesterday. We drove to the east coast yesterday. 9. uc l c Capitalization error where did you go on sunday? Where did you go on Sunday? 10. add punctuation Let’s go Let’s go. 11. spelling error She’s really smrt. She’s really smart. [...]... purpose of a topic sentence? _ 2 A topic sentence is usually the in a paragraph 3 The sentences following the topic sentence in a paragraph are called sentences 4 Supporting sentences must support the main idea of a _ 5 The main of idea of sentence is stated in the _ sentence 26 Chapter Two Basic Concepts of Paragraph Building Paragraph Building: Defining... paragraph is a number of sentences written about the same topic The main idea of the paragraph is usually given in the first sentence which is called the topic sentence The topic sentence introduces what the paragraph is talking about and limits the information that can be given in the other sentences The other sentences add information to the topic and are called supporting sentences When you are writing... the topic sentence When something is not related to the topic sentence it should not be in the paragraph, and it is called irrelevant 27 Exercise 2.1 Which sentences below are relevant or irrelevant to the topic? Write an r or an i on the space next to each sentence to note if it is relevant (r) or irrelevant (i) to the topic sentence Below the sentences write why you think the irrelevant sentence does... to get a good score on an examination What is the topic sentence? _ Are there any irrelevant sentences? Which one? Why? _ 30 Paragraph Building Exercise: Irrelevant Sentences Exercise 2.3 Each of the following paragraphs has a sentence that is irrelevant Draw a line through that sentence Example: There are many things you can do to help... of a sentence is not written (or spoken), but is understood “Come to my office after class.” is a complete sentence This is a command or imperative sentence The subject is you is understood by both the writer and reader (or speaker and listener) and the sentence really means: You come to my office after class Exercise 1.17 Read the phrases below and mark the fragments with and F and the complete sentences... _ 4 let’s drive to paris france on january 15th 2005 _ Sentence Structure: Sentences, Subjects, and Verbs Our definition of a sentence earlier in the book stated that a sentence is an expression of a complete thought and contains a subject, verb, and ending punctuation A sentence may also have more than one subject and more than one verb Review the following paragraph... table _ 6 she (have) new furniture _ Sentence Building: and, but As your writing skills improve you will want to use more complex sentences to keep your writing interesting And or but can connect two sentences When using and or but to connect two sentences, use a comma before and or but That car is beautiful It is fast That car is beautiful,... Then write the sentences with correct capitalization and punctuation on the lines below 1 kaist and pnut located in korea 2 my tv broken 3 my new id card from konkuk university 4 the hotels in the uae _ expensive Sentence Structure: Parts of a Sentence A sentence is... Hanam Building Samsung Corporation Seoul National University Exercise 1.20 Rewrite the sentences below using correct capitalization and punctuation 1 seoul national university is near subway stop number 238 2 the silla hotel is near the Hilton hotel 3 kaist is in daejon 18 Sentence Structure: Some of the simplest sentences... can be a lot of fun and very helpful Which sentence is irrelevant? Why? _ II Topic Sentence: Football is my favorite sport _ 1 Football is exciting to watch _ 2 The game is easy to learn _ 3 Football doesn’t require expensive equipment _ 4 Many people get hurt playing football Which sentence is irrelevant? Why? _ 28 III Topic Sentence: I love to watch science fiction movies . in sentence structure, sentence building, and error correction will get you ready for the basics of paragraph building in Chapter Two. Sentence Building. Chapter One Sentence Building Chapter One is designed to help you write better by giving you instruction in building better sentences. Sections